UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Agricultural Research Adminl strati on 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Washington, D. C. 
B.E.P.Q. 511, Revised 
PLANT -QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
of the 
REPUBLIC OF CHILE 
BASIC LEGISLATION 
Law No. 9,006 September 8, 19^3, on Plant Quarantine Controls, pub- 
lished In Dlarlo Oflclal on October 9, 19^ and effective thirty days 
thereafter. 
Decree No. 622 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regulations Governing 
the Application of Law 9,006, May 15, 1950, published In Dlarlo Oflclal 
on September 28, 1950, effective Immediately. 
Law No. 9006 on plant quareuitlne controls revoked Decree -Law No. 177 
of December 31, 192U, which was the "BASIC LAW" quoted In B.E.P.Q. 511. 
The present law Is drawn up under six titles and ^7 articles. Pertinent 
portions of the law follow. 
The law controls the importation, exportation and movement within Chile 
of agricultural products and products that might be harmful to them. 
Measures for the control of pests In Chile are Included. 
Every plant product ccanlng from a foreign country Is subject to Inspec- 
tion by the Department of Plant Quarantine of the Bvireau of Agriculture. 
All foreign commodities considered dangerous to plant life must be ac- 
companied by a sanitary certificate and, when so required, a certificate 
of origin, both provided by the ccanpetent authorities of the country 
whence they come. Likewise exports of plant products from Chile must 
be certified for export by the Deparlment of Plant Quarantines. 
The law applies to all plant products, including plants, cuttings, 
roots, stems, rootstocks, flowers, fruits, seeds, bark, wood, or euiy 
other part of a plant, in its natural state or processed, capable of 
harboring plant pesta or of being such in itself; and to commodities 
dangerous to plants, including plant products, living organisms, containers, 
soil, and any other medium capable of being harmful itself or of carrying 
agricultural peats. 
Plant or agricultural pests ard defined as any organism whether alive or 
of a special nature, such as a virus, capable of being harmful directly 
or indirectly to plants or their products. 
